Right now users are allowed to link multiple accounts to the same email, so (unless that's a configuration option) it would need to be fixed to ensure that emails are unique.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Nicolas Brouard INED <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi again, > > I am reformulating my (unanswered yet) question: would it be useful and easy > on a standard mediawiki site or even on wikipedia sites, to allow login > authentication by not only offering the unique pair (user_name; > user_password) but also the pair (user_email; user_password)? > > Some pro arguments are that: > - email addresses are transliterated and can be entered easily on any keyboard > - Unicode user_name can be entered once (at registration) in Cyrillic or > Arabic or Chinese or French in a way that authors can choose. With Unicode, > English transliteration of authorship is no more mandatory and may be > unattractive if your text has to be read locally. > > Some cons are: > - how to change the PHP code (I am confused with authplugin.php squelettes) > for authentication and HTML of Special:UserLogin by adding the mail address: > Username (or mail address): |___________________| > Password: |___________________| > > - is there any security issue in allowing both options? > - is there any other code to alter? > > Many thanks for any hint (or code)? > > Nicolas > > > Le 10 févr. 2012 à 17:18, Nicolas Brouard INED a écrit : > >> >> Hi, >> >> We are managing Demopaedia.org, a site which aims to give access to old and >> recent versions of the Multilingual Demographic Dictionary (United Nations >> since 1958). >> About 15 languages are already available in the first >> (en-i.demopaedia.org/wiki/10) or second edition >> (en-ii.demopaedia.org/wiki/10). >> >> A secondary aim is to open an encyclopedia (en.demopaedia.org) on the >> Scientific Study of Population, based on the corpus of terms already >> validated by the dictionary. >> >> Based on mediawiki (1.16 moving to 1.18), the site is a corporate site. >> People allowed to edit need to sign under their professional real name. >> Currently their login name (user_name) is their real name (not a pseudo), >> sometimes transliterated without accent and in roman characters (but not >> always, see Михаил Денисенко on >> http://ru-ii.demopaedia.org/w/index.php?title=90&action=history). Their >> e-mail address is also mandatory. >> >> I would like to change their login process by entering their e-mail address >> as a login and having their real name in the history as well as for >> authorship. The simplest way could be that the user_name, user_real_name and >> user_email fields are kept intact, but the login process is authenticated by >> the e-mail address, keeping the same password that they have entered. Thus >> people could have a unalterable user_name (given by me), a user_real_name >> which could have accents or whatever and an e-mail address that they could >> change. >> >> And here is my question, how can I do this and do I need any of the >> extensions like Realnames, PageHistoryRealnames, ShowRealUsernames etc. >> >> I spent some time googling but didn't find an easy solution. >> >> Many thanks for any hint. >> >> >> Nicolas >> >> >> >> >> >> Nicolas Brouard INED >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > Nicolas Brouard INED > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l -- John _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
